The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City Making and Unmaking the City Politics, Culture, and Life Forms
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2013
- 469p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Identities, Interests, Institutions: Politics and violence in the city The battle for lucknow..........1 The tilak riots: A reminiscence.......2 Block 22...........6 A split-level war in Jamshedpur.......12 Land to the killer ...............23 Shiv sena, the City, and Communal Populism .........30 2. The social web of life in the Metropolis Flute-Music........47 Urban Frauds.......49 The truth about dhanya......55 Juthika .........56 Main Bambai ka Baabu Naam Mera Anjaana ...........64 The great big city ............66 The unwordly ones: The hijras .....76 Winter in Calcutta ............85 A street in Srinagar ............95 3. Living at the city`s Periphery: Dalits, Labourers, slum-dwellers, and Outsiders ..............141 4. Multiple cities, many ethnicities: Claiming and Disowning the city .........243 5. Art, Culture, and Conviviality in the city ........317 Ruins of Cities past- and Future?...............391